On Tuesday 18 November 2003 6:31 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > Well, I found that the problem is not with the sound card, thanks to you > > guys. Bjorn gave me a tip in the options cs4232 line with the mpuirq=10, > > and I got it up and running, but only in console. Yep, in tty1, I was > > able to play an mp3 with mp3blaster. > > > > But when I get over to the graphical side, running XMMS completely locks > > up the system. The mouse is dead, the keyboard is dead, the whole > > freakin' thing. It doesn't crash until a sound is made. Attempting to > > play an mp3 kills it, and generating a tone with the tone generator > > plugin kills the system. So then I wondered if it was something about the > > sound system, and I installed Kaboodle, and attempted to play an mp3. > > Same deal. DOA. > > > > I am wondering if its and IRQ problem, but it doesn't seem so. Now, I > > appear to be using IRQ9 for mpu and IRQ 5 for sound. IRQ 9 does not show > > up in /proc/interrupts, however IRQ 5 is shown to be used by Crystal > > Audio Controller. > > > > Where do I go from here? > > > > Rob > > you're a KDE user, aren't you? > > in the DM you're using (e.g. mdkkdm, kdm, gdm, xdm) make sure that X is > not being niced: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg129204.html > > kcontrol, stop artsd from running with real time priority. > > xmms, make sure it's using arts output plugin (may need to install > xmms-arts), don't allow it to run with realtime either. > > log out, then CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to make the DM changes take effect, > then log back in and you should be fine.
OK, I altered the X stuff (not that I can see how this would effect the crash) then I dropped out of KDE and entered Gnome. Trying XMMS I had the same problem. Start to play the tune (this time an ogg file) and the keyboard and touch pad are doa, without any kernel messages. And I started XMMS for Console, and there were no messages there. And just for yucks, I tried mp3blaster in a console window. You guessed it, dead as a doorknob. What the heck could it be? How the heck could I detect it? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people.
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